Criterion pays homage to a truly weird visual experience that begat several more celebrated classics and yet remains largely unknown.
Dinner for Schmucks sadly remains beholden to stiff structure and unimaginative narrative turns from the get-go.
The film is like most modern Hollywood horror-thriller hybrids in structure and color scheme, only duller.
The Black Pirate returns as a crackerjack entertainment, a historical benchmark, and yet another shrine to movie love courtesy of Kino.
The Endless Summer exudes a blissful, mellow buzz that could easily be misconstrued as lazy or innocuous filmmaking.
The film is funny and thought-provoking where most documentaries present themselves as trustworthy and invariably factual.
Its violence, its gore, and its torrential mayhem is hard to miss.
This near-complete restoration of Lang’s silent masterpiece is nothing if not the non-Criterion Blu-ray release of the year.
The film is a middling look at the stormy relationship between Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Bill Clinton.
Frank Lloyd’s big, astute spectacle can now be seen as a showcase for adventure unencumbered by beasts, blood, or much romance.
The film is one of the more unsentimental and even-handed depictions of the collision between faith and passion.
It packs a wealth of caring and admiration for its subject without ever feeling sanctimonious, showy, or overly nostalgic.
A good tech package, all in all.
Blue Underground has been a reliable source for revamping cult films with impeccable visual clarity.
One of the final mysteries Werner Herzog evokes is what, if anything, albino alligators, who populate a neighboring arboretum, dream of.
Paul Verhoeven’s fantastic commentary from the Criterion Collection DVD version is, sadly, not duplicated here.
A hallucinatory near-masterpiece and one of the best American war films produced in the 1990s.
The film is a low-budget action spectacle that should inspire amateur filmmakers to take genuine risks.
Véréna Paravel and J.P. Sniadecki’s Foreign Parts is a lovely and detailed visual elegy.
Folklore, rituals, and the past weigh heavily on Silent Souls.